I’ve been playing for a few hundred hours now and can actually claim to have a solid grip on most of the game. I was selling off activated indium from the farm I’ve set up (about 12m units worth/day which I think is pretty respectable) when I saw a trade item I didn’t recognize in my exosuit inventory. I had a full stack, 50/50. Something called Starship AI Valves. I look at the value for the sale. That moment was one of those moments where you wonder for a split second whether the problem is your eyes or reality itself. 650 million units. So I look them up and see they are the most valuable item in the game, only obtained from scrapping a ship worth more than 50 million. There’s a different thread where someone discovers one in their inventory and is informed that someone must have just given it to them in the Anomaly, and this must be their lucky day.

Here’s my question: did someone seriously just give me the product of fifty scrapped high value starships, completely out of the blue, just to be a nice person? Has anything of this magnitude happened to anyone else?